Challenging ideas of what literacy means, exploring alternatives and assistive technologies. University course.

1. What is Reading? 21 October 2008 CEP 452 Ira David Socol

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBXl0vPzFSA

3. Challenging Text

7. Dere's no guy livin' dat knows Brooklyn t'roo an t'roo, because it'd take a guy a lifetime just to find his way aroun' duh goddam town. So like I say, I'm waitin' for my train t' come when I sees dis big guy standin' deh -- dis is the foist I eveh see of him. Well, he's lookin' wild, y'know, an' I can see dat he's had plenty, but still he's holdin' it; he talks good an' is walkin' straight enough. So den, dis big guy steps up to a little guy dat's standin' deh, an' says, "How d'yuh get t' Eighteent' Avenoo an Sixty-sevent' Street?" he says..." "How long you been livin' heah," I says. All my life," he says. " I was bawn in Williamsboig," he says. "An I can tell you t'ings about dis town you neveh hoid of," he says.

8. "Yeah," I says "Yeah," he says. "Well, den you can tell me t'ings about dis town dat nobody else has eveh hoid of, either. Maybe you make it all up yoehself at night," I says, "befoe you go to sleep -- lie cuttin' out papeh dolls, or somp'in" "Oh yeah," he says. "You're pretty wise, ain't yuh?" "Duh boids ain't using my head for Lincoln's statue yet," I says. "But I'm wise enough to know a phoney when I see one..." Thomas Wolfe, Only The Dead Know Brooklyn

9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U55SvF1P0aU Glasgow Accent, Trainspotting

10. Is this Reading?

15. Freedom Scientific: WYNN

16. Comic Book, Classics Illustrated

17. Comic Book, Classics Illustrated

18. Newsvender.- "NOW, MY MAN, WHAT IS IT?" Boy. "I VONTS A NILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER WITH A NORRID MURDER AND A LIKENESS IN IT"

21. http://www.tx2ph.com/ Books-on-Mobile

22. Braille

23. Audio Book

24. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvItuL7vo-A Film with Subtitles

25. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euG1y0KtP_Q Silent Film

32. Text without Words

33. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY Can we still be learning? Reading?

34. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_0IpkK67u8

35. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

36. Text-To-Speech TTS

37. On Line Text-To-Speech http://vozme.com/ http://spokentext.net/ http://www.yakitome.com/

38. Simple Downloadable Windows Text-To-Speech http://www.naturalreaders.com/ http:// www.readplease.com /

39. Simple Mac OS TTS Open System Preferences - it’s the fourth item in the Apple menu. In the “System” section, usually about the fourth line of icons, there is an icon labeled “Speech” which looks like an old fashioned microphone. Click on the Speech icon.

40. Simple Mac OS TTS Select any key combination that isn’t already used for something else. Now all you need to do is select some text in an application - I suggest you try it first with Safari or Text Edit - and hit your keys and you should hear Mac OS X read out whatever you have selected!

41. Multi-Featured Downloadable Windows Text-To-Speech Microsoft Reader with Text-To-Speech engine and Read in Microsoft Reader (RMR) add-ons - FREE http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/ pc.asp (laptop/desktop PC) http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/ tablet.asp (tablet PC, with "write notes in the margins!") http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/ tts.asp (Text-To-Speech) http://www.microsoft.com/reader/developers/downloads/ rmr.asp (RMR, creates one-click conversions from Microsoft Word) http://www.microsoft.com/reader/downloads/ dictionaries.asp (Dictionaries)

42. Downloadable MS Office Text-To-Speech WordTalk http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/ PowerTalk http://fullmeasure.co.uk/powertalk/

43. Downloadable Audio Software Windows – Mac OS Audacity http:// audacity.sourceforge.net /

44. Free Text-To-Speech in Firefox Windows – Mac OS http://clickspeak.clcworld.net/downloads.html

45. Full Feature Literacy Supports

46. Purchasable Systems WYNN http://www.freedomscientific.com/LSG/products/WYNN.asp Read:OutLoud http://www.donjohnston.com/products/read_outloud/index.html Read-and-Write-Gold http://www.texthelp.com/page.asp?pg_id=10193 AspireReader http://www.cast.org/products/ereader/index.html Kurzweil 3000 http://www.kurzweiledu.com/kurz3000.aspx

47. Universal Design for Reading 21 October 2008 CEP 452 Ira David Socol